"A Park promenade, with wind-swept fashionables. In the foreground (left) are three tiny children, almost hidden by their huge wide-brimmed straw hats, below which ankle-length drawers are seen. With them is a wasp-waisted lady also in a big flat hat, and with inflated sleeves connected by a tiny corsage. A soldier wearing a flat cap looks down on the roof of hats with astonishment. A dandy resembling one of the Crowquills in BM Satires 15156, and holding a similar cane, is arm-in-arm with a tall man draped in high-collared and tasselled cape reaching to the ground. They meet and address two ladies. A grotesquely obese woman ogles a passer-by. The new developments in costume are trousers pinched at the knee, and inflated above and below it, and for women large flat hats with flexible brims (cf. BM Satires 15017, 15059), much-defined breasts, and draped shoulder-capes tied at the back, with a general impression of swirling draperies."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Monstrosities of 1825 and 6
Description:
Title from caption below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Fashion -- French., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1827.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 10th 1826, by G. Humphrey 24 St. James's Strt. St. James's
"A realistic bedroom scene; the bed (right) in a curtained alcove. A man reclines in a long oval (portable) bath, full to the brim; seemingly of tin, with handles, with a pillow to support the head. One man shaves him, another massages his foot, while a coffee-tray floats on (or stands in) the water. He holds a delicately balanced spoon. A wig, simulating natural hair, stands on a tall wig-block; another stand supports a coat; a dandy's trousers lie on a chair. There is a small dressing-table with shaving materials and stoppered bottles. The room is otherwise bare, with no suggestion of luxury."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 19th 1824 by G. Humphrey 24 St. James's St.
Five couples, finely dressed men and ladies at an outdoor luncheon party are stampeded by bees. Confusion is made worse by one man who falls backwards from a bench, which he tilts up, clutching the table-cloth and dragging over a bowl of punch. One of the ladies (left) has fainted and is being revived by a gentleman who pours a glass of water on her face. The dog on the right barks at the confusion
Alternative Title:
Picnic party disturbed by a swarm of bees
Description:
Title from caption below image., Questionable attribution to G. Cruikshank from British Museum catalogue, Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Watermark: J. Whatman 1825.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 1st 1826 by G. Humphrey 24 St. James's Street
Three images of young boys, one playing with a stick and hoop; another, poor ragged boy, barefoot and carrying a sack; and the third a young ragged, chimney sweep
Description:
Title from captions below image sequence., Sheet trimmed within plate mark and into three distinct sections., and Watermark.
Three images of young boys, one playing with a stick and hoop; another, poor ragged boy, barefoot and carrying a sack; and the third a young ragged, chimney sweep
Description:
Title from captions below image sequence., Sheet trimmed within plate mark and into three distinct sections., and Watermark.
Three images of young boys, one playing with a stick and hoop; another, poor ragged boy, barefoot and carrying a sack; and the third a young ragged, chimney sweep
Description:
Title from captions below image sequence., Sheet trimmed within plate mark and into three distinct sections., and Watermark.
Title from caption below image., Possibly from Cruikshank's self-published series: My sketch book., Plate numbered in upper left corner: Pl. 4., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
"A scene in Rotten Row, Hyde Park. Three horsemen, the centre one ('Up') in the foreground. He is a cockneyfied dandy and bad (and frightened) horseman: his horse kicks viciously; the girth is broken, the saddle slipping sideways: he has dropped his rein to clutch at the horse's mane; his hat flies off, and though still in the saddle he will inevitably fall awkwardly. A dog barks at him. In the middle distance (left) a dandy rides stiffly, while on the right the third dandy (right) on a caracoling horse resembles Lord Petersham."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from caption below image., State with variant imprint. Cf. No. 14446 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10., Temporary local subject terms: Horses -- Riders -- Shows -- Dogs., and Watermark: 1831.
"Holiday-making 'cits' drive, ride, and walk (right to left) on a dusty road, in the direction of a sign-post (right) pointing 'To Wimbledon' (left); the opposite arm points (right) to: 'a near Cut to Batter sea'. [An allusion to the retort to a simpleton: 'You must go to Battersea to get your simples cut.' E. C. Brewer, 'Dict, of Phrase and Fable'. Cf. No. 12831.] On the extreme left is the back of a coach, with outside passengers, one with a huge frothing tankard. A fat man trudges between two women, followed by a bloated dog. A 'cit' on a bucking horse follows. Next is a family party: a fat woman carrying an infant, her lean husband holding a bag and a telescope, and dragging a go-cart in which sit four young children, while a chimney-sweep stands on the back of the cart, followed by another hanging to his coat; a child angrily threatens them with a coral and bells. Two meretricious-looking women walk arm-in-arm, closely followed and ogled by two absurd men in extravagant dandy costume, also arm-in-arm. These have enormous bell-trousers as in No. 12840. Driving beside these two groups is John Bull with his wife and four children in a two-wheeled cart drawn by a lean horse, flogged into a gallop. The cart is inscribed 'J.B Tax Cart N° 1816'. Behind him a would-be dandy drives a lady in a gig. In the background is the front of the procession which has turned to the right on to open common, where are tents, a swing, with a large bonfire to which men are dragging a whole tree, just cut down."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Waterloo review!!!!!!
Description:
Title from caption below image., Temporary local subject terms: Cits -- Crowds -- Families -- Fires -- Tents -- Carriages -- Dustmen., and Watermark: 1801.
"Thomas Raikes sits on a divan between two courtesans, his head in profile to the right. On the right is a round table spread with a luxurious dessert, pine-apple, peaches, decanters, &c. The centre-piece is a figure of Mercury (cf. British Museum Satires No. 7592) poised on a globe and holding up a second globe, perhaps a lamp. A long bill hangs from the table . . . Dr to Mrs Wood--Bed--10-- Brandy 5--coffee 1--Eggs--Brandy 2--Oysters 1--Eggs--20, 0 Ham--10-- Coffee 11--Beds 5--Brandy 2--Bed 1-- to show that the establishment is a brothel run by Mrs. ('Mother') Wood (cf. British Museum Satires No. 13734). On the wall are two pairs of crossed rakes tied with ribbons, and pictures, with punning titles: Siege of Belle Lisle, Wood Deamon [cf. British Museum Satires No. 10796], Babes in ye Wood, The Rakes Progress, Burn em Wood, Deity of the Woods, Wood Pigeon Wood Cock."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
The commercial dandy and his sleeping partners
Description:
Title from caption below image., "Dr. E.D." pseudonym of George Cruikshank?, Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local subject terms: Costume: male, female, 1821 -- Furniture: round table -- Divan -- Food: pineapple, fruit -- Decanters -- Lighting: candlestick -- Mythology: Mercury -- Rakes -- Mrs. "Mother" Wood, fl. 1821., Manuscript "256" in upper center of plate., and Watermark: J. Whatman.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 1st, 1821 by G. Humprey [sic] 27 St. James's St.
Subject (Name):
Raikes, Thomas, 1777-1848
Subject (Topic):
Brothels, Courtesans, Dandies, British, and Prostitutes